Man Born in 1846 Talks About the Day After President Lincoln Was Shot - Enhanced Audio 

It is mind-blowing to think about. My friend has old recordings of his grandmother's second husband who lived from around the 1880's to the 1970's. He died before he was born but his mom has a lot of cool stories about him and saved all of these tapes of him just talking about his experiences. This guy actually first hand witnessed the first recorded deadly plane crash ever in the early 1900's when him and some friends went to watch a test flight. Then this guy goes on to live to see men walk in the moon. Unbelievable.

@@100percentSNAFU Lt. Thomas Selfridge, the first person to die in an aircraft accident. He was flying with Orville Wright when the plane went down due to engine failure. Along with Selfridge ANGB in Michigan, every Air Force base has a street named in his honor. As a history buff and a retired AF member I would have loved to hear his account of what happened. From that to the Moon landing is quite a journey indeed.

@@itinerantpatriot1196 Yes! I couldn't remember the name but remembered he was military. Thanks for that. That's awesome that knew that. History buff here as well and also interested in aviation, my dad was USAF and my grandfather USAAF radio operator over the battles in the Philippines in WWII. But yes, the tapes of this other guy are amazing. He was an inventor as well and believe it or not invented a carburetor for General Motors in the 1920's and became quite wealthy, he was a millionaire when that really meant something. My buddy has the scale model with a cutaway of the prototype that this guy saved, which has to be priceless the n collector value for historic automotive enthusiasts.

@@itinerantpatriot1196 Never knew this! I was an airman from 2003-09. Cool!

@@WAT906 Always happy to drop a bit of AF history knowledge. Thanks for your service.

Yes indeed. These are my fav

For real, he was in his 100s in the forties. Imagine.

I wonder what people will think about tik tok in 100 years

@@datadavis they'll learn about it in a youtube video called "20 fads of the 2020's"

He might have seen a lot but he never saw SpongeBob SquarePants so who’s the real winner here

Yeah. They where a lot healthier back then, seems they where fit in to old age. By the time most of us are in our late 80s we won’t be able to move. We really need to fix our food stop with all the chemicals.

@@lemonaid8678 apsolutely not true. do your research and see what was the lifespan of a human through history.

@@SomeUnremarkableGuy k.

@@lemonaid8678 just plain wrong

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157 years ago Edit: probably @Linda Anthony is right and the 80 refers to the man's memory span. Thanks

And for a man who was 101 at the time of this recording. His mind is clear as a bell, he remembers even what the weather was like and what he was thinking at the time. Astounding.

@@alcohol70percents I believe he is saying 80 years ago in the man’s time, not in our time

Consider the truth of the nationality, and military alliance this person represents.🐕‍🦺This is a replacement attack against a US General, at a time the USA was weakened at the sudden loss, of a US President. 🧌 This foreign agent wanted to destroy the USA, by claiming another's parts, for self-serving, ambitious objectives. 🥷 Some snakes nest of 'Kindly'; Adjective vs' Adverb, what they are doing has nothing to do with 'Civil War'.🦟Gratefully, a Mortal Native American CIA agent, ran with the US Flag, all the way the start. 🇺🇸

@@lindaanthony7890 Perhaps "80 years prior" would have been more clear.

I loved hearing him say "Some big Yankee must have died".

From musket balls to jet fighters in one life time. It's amazing

Cavalry to tanks and even nukes.

@@isaweesaw Weird af comparison, we used minie, greener, prichett and other elongated bullets in the Civil War, not "musket balls". Pretty similar in appearance to a modern 9mm bullet. Better comparison is how the most advanced we had was manual machine guns and lever-action repeating rifles, in comparison with the Vulcan machine guns, U2 spyplanes and fighters of the 1940s and 50s.

do you have a link?

I dunno, man. I think living to 102 could be a sort of a curse depending on your health. Physical and mental. By age 80, you’ve already outlived most -if not all- of your friends, family, and other acquaintances.

Blows my mind that Harriet Tubman was born within Thomas Jefferson's lifetime and died within Ronald Reagan's. Even crazier: 10th President John Tyler has a grandson that's still alive.

It's not so long ago! Everyone born in 2017 or earlier has lived in the lifetime of people from the 19th century,

fighting for the rights to enslave other humans, fascinating

​@@TreyMessiah95 lmao moron. Pick up a history book. Not all soldiers in the Confederate army agreed with slavery. They could have been drafted or something else. Your ignorance is why we need to bring back public whoopings

@@TreyMessiah95 Thats the democratic party for you

Absolutely.

@@pockets67 👅

He's speaking in a southern accent.

That's a much older generation than his? He has a very distinctive Southern accent, there's no universal "American accent" - he sounds more English than, say, a Northerner might.

Amen! The South Will Rise Again!

We already have too many traitors. We don't need anymore.

He's a saint for having no animosity towards the Union after being starved, dehydrated, and flooded and frozen in some of the worst conditions humanly possible.

@@memonk11 Better a traitor than a tyrant, yankee doodle.

@@Dad-979 If the south rises again, expect a NATO intervention. They're not going to tolerate a Confederate States of America.

He was graceful and courteous, unlike the Democrat slave masters today, who love to inflict mandates and start wars and riots. This fellow was a cool chap, honest and respectful.

Ken 😯

oh Jesus. You're stupid. I consider myself on the far left of the political spectrum, and I enjoyed it.

Very strange to hear those words! Just “Lincoln” and “last night” in the same sentence 🤯

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I mean this isn't 200 years ago, so weird comparison, but I get it

Literacy has skyrocketed since their day. There was still widespread illiteracy back then.

Yes, he certainly was a well-spoken traitor, wasn't he?

@@Horus-Lupercal Of course literacy has skyrocketed. I was referring to verbal communication.

@@Horus-Lupercal How little you know of today's American educational system. Nowadays, they almost give away diplomas. Kids finish High School by the millions each year, but a big percentage barely knows how to properly write or make a draft. And let's no mention how people speak today. It seems the country keeps going backwards.

@@Horus-Lupercal literacy yes, but command of language has faltered. Gnome whud ah mean mane? Sheeit.

Rob

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Crazy how that works. I can recall details from ordinary events from when I was a toddler up through young adulthood. But now I'm the same way. Can't remember what I ate for breakfast, watch the same movie 2 or 3 times because I don't remember watching it, and so on...

Our long term memory is stronger than our short term memory. Also, we usually remember details of big events that happen to us.

He doesn’t sound English. He sounds American.

Originally, the US "Southern" accent was an attempt to mimic certain English accents.

Keep in mind a certain amount of this may well be the man BSing - Confederate Soldiers were willing participants in the "Lost Cause" mythos. Lost causers understood the way most Northerners venerated Abe Lincoln, and were willing to write their histories with an at least neutral, if not entirely positive, portrayal of the 16th President if it meant that white Northerners would buy into their ideas about the Civil War having been about States Rights. It could, of course, also be true that he felt no real hatred towards Lincoln - people in the Confederacy were varied in the complex but we should keep in mind just how absolutely *hated* this man was in the South. Companies made bank in the months leading up to the 1860 election by making effigies of Lincoln that Southerners would burn at bonfires. His very election caused seven states to almost immediately secede from the union - before Lincoln had even been inaugurated!

Very good points. That could explain his position as well.

It was taxes that started secession talk in 1828 Tariff of Abomination and into the 1860s. When another anti-Southern tariff (Morrill Act) was passed earlier in the year, the pro-Morrill Republicans won election in November, South Carolina knew what was coming and legally seceded. Six days later, the US Army left Ft Moultrie and under cover of darkness invaded and held Ft Sumter. South Carolina tried for 3.5 months under two US presidents to have the troops leave. South Carolina had left peaceably and wanted it to stay that way but the Union wouldn't allow the State to leave with the "Union's tax revenue"! Five days after the evacuation of Ft Sumter, 19 April 1861, Lincoln proclaimed a military blockade on Southern ports saying: "Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE (TAX MONEY) cannot be effectually executed therein comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires DUTIES (TAX MONEY) to be uniform throughout the United States:..." Lincoln started a war for money. He invaded Virginia three months later and fours after that, the US House of Representatives almost copied Lincoln's words: Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, WILL RECOLLECT ONLY ITS DUTY (Revenue Taxes) TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to (financially) PRESERVE THE UNION, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." So, blame the Union! As Jefferson Davis said, "We just want to be left in peace!"

@@MGTOWPaladin I thought that war was about slavery

@@MGTOWPaladin Curious, then, that South Carolina does not mention tariffs in their declaration of secession, saying, The Issue of taxes or tariffs is not mentioned once! Another great document to look at here is the Georgia declaration of secession. It is the longest declaration of secession, and goes into incredible detail about the causes of secession. In fact, it contains 11 paragraphs detailing their grievances against the anti-slavery movement in the North, and how they feel the federal government is now in control of the abolitionists, but just two paragraphs about taxes and tariffs. It contains phrases like; "The North demanded the application of the principle of the prohibition of slavery to all of the territory acquired from Mexico and in all other parts of the public domain . . . .The claim was less arrogant and insulting than the reason with which she supported it. That reason was her fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the states where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity." Now let's move on to the Cornerstone speech, delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens in 1860. Stephens starts out by listing the changes the Confederate constitution has made from the old, including limiting the power of the tariff. But then, he goes on to say this: But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. There you have it. Stephens explicitly says that the cause of the war is slavery. But he goes on.

Matt 😏

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19 yr. old boys can own an AR-15 - not much has changed!

@@patriciafarrow9586 The question is "will he use it properly?" At 18, the Army assigned a fully-automatic AR-15 called an M-16 as well as allowing me to train with an M-60 belt-fed, machine gun, throw hand grenades, shoot LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) rockets, etc. Guns are not the problem but stupid people are! Having a vagina doesn't make every woman a prostitute, but every prostitute has a vagina. Not everyone with a gun is dangerous, but depending on "attitude" anyone with a gun can be dangerous!

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Dan

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@@susan9498 💯

I still put my flag at half staff for certain federal things but, holy shit, I'm not putting it down everytime some 90 year old retired state working bean-counter dies.

Yea because the only far left extremism that existed at that time was democrats owning african americans.

It depended on where in the world you lived. In other regions, people were colonized, butchered, murdered, enslaved, and starved. The victims never had the chance to write their own history, as the pen was firmly in the hands of their colonial masters.

Human beings with common experience

There was some hate on the confederacy side ..Lincoln received many death threats. John Wilkes Booth hated Lincoln so much that he killed him...this man maybe was neutral but most were not fans of Lincoln

When the sowing is better, the harvest is also better.

Dunn 😊

I was born in 1986, so my first big event was 9/11 and I couldn't even use the phone to call my aunt that was flying out of New Orleans to Baltimore and her flight was for 9am. I was nervous the whole time until I left school. As a 15 year old, I didn't have a grasp of what terrorism was even though I grew up on movies like True lies, Die Hard, Face Off etc.

Ford 🤩

@@Babararoot55 tf

Consider the truth of the nationality, and military alliance this person represents.🐕‍🦺This is a replacement attack against a US General, at a time the USA was weakened at the sudden loss, of a US President. 🧌 This foreign agent wanted to destroy the USA, by claiming another's parts, for self-serving, ambitious objectives. 🥷 Some snakes nest of 'Kindly'; Adjective vs' Adverb, what they are doing has nothing to do with 'Civil War'.🦟Gratefully, a Mortal Native American CIA agent, ran with the US Flag, all the way the start. 🇺🇸

@@BTin416 The old southern drawl as it's called is very close to English accents. When everybody thinks "Southern" now they think of some hick with no teeth saying "Those God dern idjits took muh damn tractor, Cletus." I wish this southern accent was still common.

The accents changed. You should also sample the grammar in books George Washington learned from, to New England sermons to the Founding. It'll help understand how far our generations twisted their intentions and put it to rest each time a know it all tells us their agenda instead of what actually happened.

Also, search video of linguistics demonstration of the changes.

Oh and I wrote it above but please search the General's whole recording.

Almost 160 years gone, but really it's not that long ago. I shook the hand of a WW1 veteran who shook the hand of a Civil War veteran. It's kind of a weird feeling.

My grandma was born in 1911.

Hello 👋

Yes, exactly!

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Lol

The description says 1947

In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress.

That's Hollywood for you

Walton